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201710 Clubmini Blue Mountains Trip Book BMWDCM Bright & Area April 2020 This is a bushfire relief trip. The agenda can be adjusted at the time. The intent is to support the local businesses. These notes have a sample of possible drives and some other information. CONTENTS 3 Sisters at Dusk © 2015 Peter Williams CAR WASHING 2 TWO-WAY RADIOS 2 ACTIVITIES IN BRIGHT AND SURROUNDS 3 BRIGHT MAP 4 98 OCTANE FUEL 5 HOSPITAL/MEDICAL 5 TAWONGA GAP, MT BEAUTY & FALLS CREEK 6 MOUNT BEAUTY / TAWONGA RURAL LOOP TO BRIGHT 8 MYRTLEFORD & LAKE BUFFALO 9 MOUNT BUFFALO 9 BEECHWORTH & YACKANDANDAH TRIP 10 BEECHWORTH TOWN MAP 11 BEECHWORTH & YACKANDANDAH ROUTE MAP 12 LONG TWISTY ROAD TRIP OPTION – BRIGHT – OMEO – TALLANGATTA - BRIGHT 13 ROUTE MAP FOR OPTIONAL LONG DRIVE 15 BRIGHT - MELBOURNE 16 OPENING HOURS 17 GETTING THERE 17 THINGS TO SEE AND DO 17 MOUNT BUFFALO NATIONAL PARK 17 BE PREPARED AND STAY SAFE 20 1 | P a g e CAR WASHING There is a car wash beside Woolworths in the main street. The BP service station at 12 Delaney Avenue has coin-operated, self-serve carwash facilities. TWO-WAY RADIOS We’ll be using channel 17 Remember that everything you say on a radio is public and can be heard by anyone in the vicinity If you’re in the middle of a sizable group, please relay messages from the back or front, as radios often have limited range, especially in mountainous regions. If you need something repeated, “say again” is the best way to indicate this Remember to recharge the radio each night, unless it has separate batteries. Ovens River at Bright 2 | P a g e ACTIVITIES IN BRIGHT AND SURROUNDS This information is from 2018 – use at your discretion! Food Restaurants and cafes and Bright hotels Self-catered Lunch or dinner at the Wandiligong Pub https://www.thewandipub.com/ Bright Cafés with 4.5 or 5 stars on TripAdvisor Bright Restaurants with 4.5 or 5 stars on (and >20 reviews) TripAdvisor (and >20 reviews) Gum Tree Pies (5 stars) Tomahawks (5 stars) Sixpence Coffee (5 stars) – coffee shop Walker Bros Wine Bar Cherry Walk Wandiligong (Wandi) Pub Blackbird Café Shimla (Italian and Indian) Coral Lee Grape & Grain Bar (Australian, Mexican, Spanish) Food Wine Friends Birbante Pizzeria & Cellar Door Café Velo Bistro Aliment (French, Australia) What You Eat Rok Salt Fish & Chippery (fast food, seafood) Dumu Balcony Café Other Activities 1. Markets perhaps on the Sunday 2. Cycleway/rail trail, with restored Bright railway station. Bright Museum near the station. 3. Canyon Walk, a riverside walk downstream from Bright town centre. Includes cuttings for gold-mining water races. 4. Historic towns: Myrtleford (nearby), Beechworth (further but larger), Yackandandah (further and small but less touristy). 5. Historic tobacco shed in Myrtleford 6. Platypus at dusk in Bright’s old water supply dams 7. Craft shops and tourist shops in Bright. 8. Wandiligong historic town (5 minutes from Bright) Wandiligong Wandiligong was the site of a small gold rush during the mid- 1850s which saw the town's population climb to over 2,000. The whole town is now registered with the National Trust as a classified landscape. Morses Creek runs through Wandiligong and features a walking track which follows the course of the river all the way to Bright. Wandiligong's gold history can be explored at "The Diggings" which is accessed via Centenary Avenue. "The Diggings" was the site of extensive mining and has been beautified with walking tracks and several footbridges across both Morses Creek and Growlers Creek. Wandiligong has a large living hedge maze. Several walks in Wandiligong show the visitor the beautiful heritage valley and its history, including the Wandi Wander, Royal Bridge Walk and The Diggings Walk with its Chinese Swing Bridge. 3 | P a g e BRIGHT MAP 4 | P a g e 98 OCTANE FUEL (Omeo) Independent service station with self-serve machine for fuel. No 98 octane. Bright BP 12 Delaney Avenue (also coin-operated self-serve car wash) Caltex 76 Gavan Street (main road), 7am-7pm United? 1 Anderson Street (corner Great Alpine Road) Mt Beauty Caltex 1 Lakeside Ave, 6am-9pm Caltex 233 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South, 7am-7pm Tallangatta BP 13 Towong Street (which passes for the main road of the town) Caltex 21 Towong Street, 7am-7.30pm Mansfield BP 145 Mt Buller Rd just near the Eastern end of town Caltex 2 Chenery St, 24 hour (Shell) (Bonnie Doon, West of Mansfield) HOSPITAL/MEDICAL Town Name Address Phone Services Notes Bright Bright Hospital Cobden St 5755 0100 Urgent/acute care etc Bright Medical Centre 115 Gavan St 5750 1000 GP Tallangatta Tallangatta Health 25 Barree St 02 6071 5200 Accident & Service emergency (small) Myrtleford Myrtleford Hospital 30 O’Donnell St 5751 9300 Urgent/acute care etc Mt Beauty Mount Beauty Hospital 1-3 Hollonds St 5754 3500 Urgent/acute care etc 5 | P a g e TAWONGA GAP, MT BEAUTY & FALLS CREEK Summary Bright – Mt Beauty 30 km Mt Beauty – Falls Creek 32 km Take the twisty road through Tawonga Gap, stopping on the descent at Sullivans Gap for the view over the Mt Beauty valley to Mt Bogong (Victoria’s highest peak). Mt Beauty has a Community Market on the first Saturday of each month. There is also the Alpine Fudge Factory, bakery and normal village shops. Each way: 32km, 50 minutes Enjoy the superb, twisty road up to Falls Creek to the views over the lake. Option: On the way back down, if it has been raining recently, a walk of 1.5km (40 minutes return) takes you to the modest waterfall at Fainter Falls. (Formed track with hills and no steps. Clearly sign posted once you’re on the track, which starts opposite the car park.) Option: On the way back down, Turn Right into the village of Bogong (Bogong Alpine Village) for a view of the small lake and maybe some photos. Return to Bright over Tawonga Gap, or head further North to cross the range on Running Creek Road (C534) to Ovens and enter Bright along the Great Alpine Road (B500) km Instruction Notes Bright to Mount Beauty Head East out of Bright along Great Alpine Road (B500 ~20 km Turn Left onto Tawonga Gap Road (C536), Targa 2: Tawonga Gap 14km signposted to Mt Beauty 21.3 km At T intersection, Turn Right onto Kiewa Valley Hwy (C531) Sullivans Lookout is about 1km past the Signposted to Tawonga South, Mt Beauty & Falls Creek summit of the pass, well signposted. 3.5 km Arrive in Mt Beauty. See Map below. Mount Beauty to Falls Creek Leave Mt Beauty travelling East up the big hill on When returning, radar trap location on Bogong High Plains Road (C531) speed limit entry into Mt Beauty Targa 3: Falls Creek 28 km 32 km Arrive in Falls Creek. See Map over the page. 6 | P a g e Mount Beauty Falls Creek 7 | P a g e Overall Route MOUNT BEAUTY / TAWONGA RURAL LOOP TO BRIGHT Drive time: 1¼ hours Distance: 85 km 1. From Mt Beauty, head north on Kiewa Valley 26 km Hwy (C531) 2. Turn left at Running Creek Road, continue 34 km onto Happy Valley Road 3. At Ovens, turn left onto Great Alpine Rd 26 km (B500) 8 | P a g e MYRTLEFORD & LAKE BUFFALO Picnic at Lake Buffalo Each way: 55km, 45 minutes Take the Great Alpine Road (B500) North-West to Myrtleford. In Myrtleford, Turn Left onto Buffalo River Road (C526) signposted to Lake Buffalo. The picnic area is on the left just before crossing the dam wall. There are barbecue facilities and toilets. The park is maintained by the regional water company, Goulburn-Murray Water. MOUNT BUFFALO Each way: 36km, 45 minutes Great twisty hillclimb to spectacular views over the Ovens valley. The lookout area is often used as a launching place for hang-gliders. There are short walks to nearby lookouts too. The historic Mt Buffalo Chalet is undergoing restoration. There might be a café operating there, but there’s another further “inland” across the mountain-top plateau (along more twisty road). To get to Mount Buffalo, head West through Bright. At Porepunkah, at the big roundabout, go straight ahead, signposted to Mt Buffalo. The Mount Buffalo Visitors’ Guide is at the end of this booklet. 9 | P a g e BEECHWORTH & YACKANDANDAH TRIP Beechworth Historic Precinct On the main road into town. Includes: • Beechworth Historic Courthouse • Robert O’Hara Burke Memorial Museum • Ned Kelly Vault • Telegraph Station • Powder Magazine Beechworth Bakery The original of the wide-spread franchise. Upstairs is usually quieter and has a balcony. Or enjoy one of the other cafés in town. Gardens of Mayday Hills There are three walks through the extensive gardens of this former lunatic asylum. The gardens are one of the National Trust’s top five collections of planted trees in Victoria Pick up the Beechworth Treescape Group’s brochure from the George Kerferd Hotel. Old Beechworth Gaol Guided tours at 11am and 1pm. No self-guided tours. Beechworth Historic Park Just to the West of the town, with a scenic one-way road through the park, bitumen at first with possibly a dirt section at the end. There are some walks in the park but I recommend driving through first. Lake Sambell Relax around Lake Sambell, just East of the centre of town. Picturesque small lake in the remains of a mine or gold diggings, from memory. There is a small, rather disappointing Chinese gardens at the South-Western end of the lake. Chinese Burning Towers at Beechworth Cemetery The cemetery is on the Northern fringe of town – we passed it on the way into Beechworth.
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